B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6826

663 lybrightness mag 6.04B9IIIn

Also catalogued as HD 167370 · HIP 89279

10,897 K

temperature

6.04

apparent magnitude

138× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9IIIn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

663 years

at light speed from Earth

1.89×

as hot as the Sun

138×

the Sun's light output

-0.50

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6826B-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6673 →49 ly apart
HR 6845 →80 ly apart
HR 6768 →85 ly apart
91The Her →100 ly apart
HR 6584 →120 ly apart
HR 6728 →120 ly apart

Bright stars in Hercules

Kornephoros →mag 2.8
Rasalgethi →mag 2.8
40Zet Her →mag 2.8
Sarin →mag 3.1
67Pi Her →mag 3.2
86Mu Her →mag 3.4
44Eta Her →mag 3.5
92Xi Her →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Hercules

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.